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PAGE TWO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year $1.09 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WE DO NOT INTEND TO FIGHT The one thing certain about the attitude of the American people to ward the European war is that we do not intend to be drawn into it. There are forces at work on both sides of the Atlantic which seem to be deliberately pushing the United States toward war. There is a small faction of Americans who are say ing that we’ll have to get into the war some day, and we’d better get into it now. The great majority say “Never again.” We do not believe it is true that we are bound to be dragged into war. “Save the World from Aggression”; and more recently a newer slogan which goes something like this: “We can't let our real friends be defeated.” Of the four foreign nations involv ed in Europe today, not one, for pure ly friendly reasons, has ever officially come to the aid of this country in time of need. Upon four outstanding occasions citizens of each of these countries have helped us privately, and the French Government officially, under Louis Sixteenth, sent a strong force of men to win our freedom from Eng land. But this French force was sent for the sole purpose of weakening England—with whom France was at war—and of caving France’s remain ing possessions in America. Nobody can force us to fight except by a direct attack upon us, when we would be forced to fight in self-de fense. There is no such threat even dimly in sight. Is it a war to protect the British and French empires? If so, why should we ruin ourselves to get into It? Before this country could enter this war, or any war, the opinions of a very large percentage of our people would have to be changed. No body can put this country deliberate ly into war. The President has no 'such power, even if he desired to use it. He has explicitly and repeat edly stated that his purpose is to keep us out of war. The power to declare war rests in Congress alone, and Congress would have to fee! very certain that an overwhelming public opinion was behind it, before It would plunge us into the European carnage. Earnest and honest people on both sides of the question of the Neutra lity laws are urging Congress to re peal the arms embargo provisions of the law, or not to repeal them. Neith er of these sets of people wants war; all want to keep us out of war, and each side thinks his way is the most certain insurance against, our participation. Whether either plan will be effec tive, only time can tell. We had no embargo law in 1917, yet we got in to the World War. We had an em bargo law in 1812 and it did not keep us out of war. What counts in law Poland’s Kosciusko and Pulaski, and particularly the Polish Jew, Haym Salomon, helped us with their swords and their money. Lafayette and de Kalb were truly unselfish Frenchmen who aided our struggling cause. Muhlenberg and that fine general of Frederick the Great of Prussia, Baron Steuben, with their German troops, gave unstinted and invaluable assistance to that same same cause; and no American should ever forget the gallant act of the British' naval commander who threat ened to blow the German squadron out of the water if it fired upon Dew ey’s fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. These were private demon strations of friendship toward our country. Now let us turn to thfe official side of the ledger. The German entries are few but written in large letters— Utter disregard for American lives and property on the high seas, during her submarine blockade of England in the Great War; and later—Dis crimination against United States citizens in payment of debts. France’s entries include, first: The arbitrary search of American ships and seizure of American seamen and property. These acts culminated in > the little known French-American I naval war which was brought to an end by Napoleon. Second—An at-1 tempt lo enlist the aid of Russia and 1 England, during our Civil War, to | force the United States government to grant a six months armistice to the Confederacy so that the South could sell its cotton and buy supplies. The success of this move would prob ably have split the United States in to two smaller and weaker nations and would heve made ineffective our Monroe Doctrine, with the result that the French conquests of Mexico would heve been established and France’s less times, when nations are at war and all the rules of honor and fair play are cast to the winds, is not statutory enactments but the will of the mass of people. ************ * * * TWO SIDES TO fcVERY * * QUESTION * • ************ By Lytle Hull Emotionalism versus America This is the only country on earth which has ever allowed pure emotion alism to drive it knowingly to the brink of collaps?. This happened in the World War and can happen again in this war—though the present tem per of the American people would in dicate that those whose love for other countries is greater that their love for America, are going to have a job on their hands this time. However, the propagandist, wheth er he be foreign-born, or home brew, is untiring and original. We don’t hear anything about the “War to End Wars” this time, and not a great deal about “Saving Democra cy. This time it is “Stop Hitler”; re-instatement in this hemisphere— under the Empire of Maximilian— would today be an accomplished fact. Third—Virtual repudiation of her debts to us, acquired during and after the World War. On this side of the ledger England chalks up, first: Search of American ships and the seizure of one-time British seamen who had become Am erican citizens. This continued action brought on the War of 1812. Second: Unnecessary burning of the city of Washington during the war. Third: The near declaration of war by Eng land over the unimportant Mason- Slidell incident at the time when the United States was fighting for its : life in the American Civil War. 1 Fourth: The virtual repudiation of her war debts. President Wilson paid our debt b Poland’s Kosciusko when he helpe< to re-form that ancient nation & Versailles. We paid Lafayette witl the lives of fifty thousand Americai boys on the battlefields of France We paid the brave commander of thi British squadron at Manila witl thousands of ripples, billions in can celled debts and the disorganizatioi of our whole financial structure The Kaiser’s German government it self cancelled our debt to Frederic! (Continued on page seven) WOMEN! read how thousands have been able to GET NEW ENERGY IMPORTANT Mtdical Tests Renal WHY Famous Lydia L Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound Has Boon Helping Weak, Rundown, If you feel tired out, limp, listless, moody, depressed—if your nerves ‘are constantly on edge and you’re losing your boy friends to more at tractive, peppy women—SNAP OUT OF IT! No man likes a dull, tired, cranky woman. All you may need is a good reliable tonic. If so try famous Lydia E. 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Over the desk of many a business man is the motto, “Do It Now.” If you have anything to do get it done and over with. If it is disagreeable, the sooner it is done and out of the way the better. There is nothing more upsetting than a lot of loose ends left undone. There is nothing so calming to the nerves, sweetening to the disposition, aiding to digestion and strengthening to the morals, as getting it done. According to the old story, when the doctor told the parents their run down boy was overworked, they said it was impossible because he had but one task to do. Each day he had a small woodbox to fill, that was all. When the doctor insisted that he was overworked, they investigated and found that he put off the task as long as he could. He thought about it all day, and actually carried the wood the last thing at night. The effect on his system was the same as if he had canied wood all day long. How about your woodbox ? 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